{"id":2557,"date":"2015-12-03T00:49:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T06:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2015-12-03T00:49:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T06:49:07","slug":"gone-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2557","title":{"rendered":"Gone Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cold Welcome<\/strong> flew away to NYC yesterday morning,\u00a0 right when it was due, but I was too wiped to post about it then.\u00a0 It went off at 129.863 words,\u00a0 and I think all the words are in the right order, though I suspect there are errors.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m still not satisfied with the formatting\u00a0 for the transition signals I sent to readers, but Word was being such a pig about things that it took me much longer than it should have to mess them about and increase the clarity quotient.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, three more dead or partly dead trees in dangerous locations have been removed by the tree removal crew, the HVAC people put in a good stack for the furnace, roofer returned today to reset and caulk the collar for the furnace & hot water heater stacks (he had insisted we needed to get the stacks installed properly by modern standards)\u00a0 and I started the toe decreases on one of the turquoise socks (the left one.)<\/p>\n

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I strongly recommend that if any of you are writing a book on contract, so there’s a deadline, that you do not choose the latter part of your writing time to re-roof a house, tear up the former living room to recarpet it and buy new furniture, have tree-removers come and remove the large mostly-dead tree that menaces your house, cars in the neighbor’s driveway, and extended (in its decrepit state) over part of the street and invite a bunch of people for Thanksgiving, having run herd on the carpet, tree, roof, and furniture people in order to provide guests with a dry, leak-free place to eat dinner and a comfortable, pleasant living room to sit and talk in.\u00a0\u00a0 All these other goals are worthwhile, of course, but combining them with the last 6-8 weeks of book revision\/polishing and the normal Thanksgiving prep work…will strain your organizational ability and that’s if you’re better at it than I am.<\/p>\n

The professionals (except the roofer who didn’t call back\u00a0 and whom we didn’t use)\u00a0 were exemplary, and the success of all this is due to their helpful attitudes and their willingness to go the extra mile to get things done by Thanksgiving.\u00a0 The guests were equally helpful\u00a0 and wonderful in their putting up with a hostess clearly at the end of her rope.\u00a0\u00a0 No pictures, alas…I had brought the camera but not the memory card.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There is one advantage to cooking for 18 and having 13, even when facing a book deadline the following Tuesday and that’s that the writer doesn’t have to cook ANYTHING between Thanksgiving and making said deadline.<\/p>\n

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